Benjamin de Casseres

The most powerful thing in the world is neither the tongue nor the sword. It is silence.

If you are born with the yen to write you can't start too early.

Walt Whitman looked on the world with the eyes of an infant staring at the marvel of a brass button.

Poets are, because the universe exists to be wondered at.

The only legitimate aristocracy is the aristocracy of character.

Death is really only a form of re-adaptation.

What we fear we cannot believe in.

Personal immortality is the dream of little minds.

Each of us literally existed in the primordial gas and each of us has been paleozoic ooze, rock, beetle, flying fish, sea water, and falling rain.

The boldness of Whitman’s claims sprung from the profundity of his insight.

Socialism is confiscation—always popular with those who have nothing.

The egotism of little men is ridiculous.

Whatever there is great has been done in the world by the individual.

The difference between the imaginative and scientific views of ghosts is merely a difference of locale.

Walt Whitman the summation and recapitulation of an endlessly diffused nature

The individual is nature’s unit value.

The ghost is a root-thought in the human mind.